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Children were treated to a spook-tacular musical show at City Centre Bahrain featuring Count Dracula and his freaky friends as they welcomed ‘humans’ to the old bat’s birthday party.
The popular shopping destination invited parents and their little ones to enjoy four days of ghoulish dancing at the mall’s Central Galleria by staging a fun feature based on the 2012 American animated hit family movie Hotel Transylvania with voice-overs by the film’s original cast.
The clever set was designed as the hotel entrance where Drac, voiced by comedian Adam Sandler, and his daughter Mavis, voiced by Selena Gomez, were inviting fellow creatures that lurk in the night to his Monster Mash.
Mavis, who loves humans, wanted to share that evening with them but her father does not allow the living into his spooky dwelling and put his foot down and warned her against it. Mavis then convinced the audience to all dress up as monsters and walk like zombies to join the party.
During the festivity, Frankenstein otherwise known, as Frank and voiced by Kevin James, performed the Calling All the Monsters song and dance with Mavis and the Mummy played by singer CeeLo Green.
Children shrieked with glee at their funny banter and laughed out loud when they started sniffing out the humans, claiming that they smelled bad!
Frank even blamed the mummy thinking he had let out a monster ‘cheek squeeze’ during the show … you can’t beat toilet humour!
Then the hotel doors opened to the medley of Hotel California and the Count appeared disco-style to welcome his guests.
The monsters continued sniffing out the humans until eventually they realised that traditionally humans could join in the fun … but only on his birthday.
All was then right with the world and everyone ended the fun with the classic Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & The Crypt Kickers smash hit Monster Mash which sounds as good today as it did in the Swinging Sixties.
The best part of the show was when the characters mocked Dracula by saying: ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ which was the long-running joke in the film. The musical held true to the cartoon capers.
It may have been one for the kids but the young-at-heart grown-ups had a blast too!
The fun continued after the show when families sped to the Ghostbusters activity zone where children did some slime and gunge-inspired arts and crafts.
- Mai Al Khatib-Camille
